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AJ Lee
April Jeanette Mendez (born March 19, 1987) is an American author, screenwriter and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name AJ Lee. Mendez began her professional wrestling career in 2007 in New Jersey's independent circuit. She signed with WWE in 2009 and spent two years in its developmental branch, Florida Championship Wrestling, before her promotion to the main roster. In 2012, she rose to prominence through Kayfabe, storylines with her "mentally unstable" character, such as high-profile relationships and a three-month stint as the Professional wrestling authority figures, General Manager of Raw (WWE brand), Raw. In subsequent years, she won the WWE Divas Championship, Divas Championship a record-tying three times and held the title for an overall record of 406 days. She also won the Slammy Award for Diva of the Year in 2012 Slammy Awards, 2012 and 2014 Slammy Awards, 2014, and readers of ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' voted her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWE Diva
Throughout its history, women have served in various onscreen roles in the American professional wrestling promotion WWE. In the 1990s, WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation) introduced the term Diva to refer to its female performers, including wrestlers, managers or valets, backstage interviewers, or ring announcers. At WrestleMania 32 in 2016, WWE announced their discontinuation of the "Diva" branding for its female performers, as part of a move to present them in an athletic manner more in line with their male counterparts, rather than in a means based around sex appeal. The promotion began to refer to them using the "Superstar" title it uses for male performers, and established a new WWE Women's Championship to replace the WWE Divas Championship. Subsequently, women's matches were featured more prominently across their programming, which included more frequent main event positions. WrestleMania 35 featured a women's match as its main event for the first time in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union City, New Jersey
Union City is a City (New Jersey), city in the North Hudson, New Jersey, northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the city was List of municipalities in New Jersey, the state's 18th-most-populous municipality,Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022. with a population of 68,589, an increase of 2,134 (+3.2%) from the 2010 United States census, 2010 census count of 66,455, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PWI Woman Of The Year
This is a list of both active and inactive ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' awards which are voted on by ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' (''PWI'') readers every year from 1972 onwards, expanding to more categories in later years. Unlike other wrestling magazines and websites, ''PWI'' is largely a magazine written within the kayfabe, fictional realm of professional wrestling and the awards recognize this. Active awards Wrestler of the Year The ''PWI'' Wrestler of the Year award recognizes the best professional wrestler of the year. Ric Flair has won the award a record six times, and remains the only wrestler with more than three wins; he also established the record for most consecutive wins with three from 1984 to 1986, with AJ Styles later tying that record in 2016–2018. Since 2020, female wrestlers have been included in the following category. Woman of the Year The ''PWI'' Woman of the Year award recognized the best female professional wrestling personality of the year. Origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lita (wrestler)
Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and singer. She is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name Lita. She is often regarded as one of the greatest and most popular female wrestlers in history. She is known for her extreme style of wrestling which has made her an inspiration for many female wrestlers. Initially using the name of Angelica, Dumas started her wrestling career in Mexico with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) in 1998, followed by briefly working on the US independent circuit in early 1999, and then working for six months in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW). Dumas then signed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed to WWE in 2002) in August 1999, debuting in February 2000 as Lita. She was originally paired with Mr. Águila, Essa Rios, but she achieved her greatest push (professional wrestling), push alongside Matt Hardy, Matt and Jeff Hardy as Hardy Boyz, Team Xtreme, and in 2005–2006 was a heel ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital First Media
MNG Enterprises, Inc., Trade name, doing business as Digital First Media and MediaNews Group, is a Denver, Colorado, United States–based newspaper publisher owned by Alden Global Capital. As of May 2021, it owns over 100 newspapers and 200 assorted other publications. History MediaNews Group was founded by Richard Scudder and William Dean Singleton. Both had experience in the American newspapers, American newspaper industry. Scudder ran the ''Newark Evening News'', a newspaper founded by his grandfather. Singleton had begun his career as a reporter when he was 15, for a small-town Texas newspaper and subsequently became the president of Allbritton Communications, Albritton Communications, a newspaper conglomerate in Texas. Based in Denver, Colorado, Scudder and Singleton purchased their first newspaper in 1983. They incorporated MediaNews Group in 1985, with Singleton as CEO and Scudder as chairman. The company began to purchase small local newspapers that were financially tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Trentonian
''The Trentonian'' is a daily newspaper serving Trenton, New Jersey, USA, and the surrounding Mercer County community. The paper in 2020 has a daily circulation of under 8,000 and a Sunday circulation of under 7,000. As of August 2020, it was ranked fourteenth in total circulation among newspapers in New Jersey. History The paper is owned by Digital First Media, a media company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, specializing in newspaper publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ..., which owns 75 daily and several hundred non-daily newspapers in the United States. DFM was formed as a merger between Media News Group (MNG) and Journal Register Company (JRC). In November 2008, DFM announced that some of its newspapers, including The Trentonian, were being put up fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Jersey Media Group
North Jersey Media Group is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in Woodland Park, New Jersey and owned by the Gannett Company, Inc. It publishes ''The Record'', the ''Herald News'' of Passaic County, the ''Daily Record'' of Morris County, and other community newspapers and publications. History North Jersey Media Group was formed in 1982 as Macromedia, Inc., an umbrella organization for all of the media interests of the Borg family, which acquired ''The Record''—the second-largest newspaper in the state. In 2000, the Borgs reorganized Macromedia as North Jersey Media Group. The company eventually grew to include the ''Herald News'' and a network of 50 community newspapers that cumulatively generated $90 million per-year in revenue. On July 7, 2016, Gannett Company announced its intent to acquire North Jersey Media Group. Once the sale was finalized, Gannett merged the operations of the ''Daily Record'' into North Jersey Media Group. On January 11, 2022, Alden Glo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) is an American professional wrestling promotion. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority-owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. A global integrated media and entertainment company, WWE has also branched out into fields outside of wrestling, including film, football, and other business ventures, such as licensing its intellectual property to other companies to produce video games and action figures. As in other professional wrestling promotions, WWE does not promote a legitimate sporting contest but rather entertainment-based performance theater, featuring storyline-driven, scripted, and partially choreographed matches; however, matches often include moves that put performers at risk of serious injury or death if not performed correctly. The pre-determined aspect of professional wrestling (an industry open secret) was publicly acknowledged by WWE in 1989 to avoid regulation by athletic commissions. WWE markets it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star-Ledger
''The Star-Ledger'' was the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey. It is based in Newark, New Jersey. The newspaper ceased print publication on February 2, 2025, but continues to publish a digital edition. In 2007, ''The Star-Ledger''s daily circulation was reportedly more than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined, and its Sunday circulation was larger than the next three papers combined. It suffered great declines in print circulation in recent years, to 180,000 daily in 2013, then to 114,000 "individually paid print circulation," which is the number of copies being bought by subscription or at newsstands, in 2015. In July 2013, the paper announced that it would sell its headquarters building in Newark. In the same year, Advance Publications announced it was exploring cost-saving changes among its New Jersey properties, but was not considering mergers or changes in publication frequency at any of the newspapers, nor the elimination of home delivery. On Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTTW
WTTW (channel 11) is a PBS member television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Owned by not-for-profit broadcaster Window to the World Communications, Inc., it is sister to commercial classical music radio station WFMT (98.7 FM). The two stations share studios in the Renée Crown Public Media Center, located at 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue (adjacent to the main campus of Northeastern Illinois University) in the city's North Park neighborhood; its transmitter facility is atop the Willis Tower on South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. WTTW also owns and operates The Chicago Production Center, a video production and editing facility that is operated alongside the two stations. WTTW is one of two PBS member stations serving the Chicago market, alongside Gary, Indiana–licensed WYIN (channel 56). WTTW, along with PBS Wisconsin flagship station WHA-TV in Madison, Wisconsin, serve as default PBS member stations for Rockford as that market does not have a PBS stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tonight
''Chicago Tonight'' is a television news program broadcast weeknights on WTTW in Chicago, United States. It reports primarily on local politics, education, business, culture, science, and health, with a mix of in-studio panel discussions, one-on-one interviews, and short documentary-style packages. On its website, it publishes additional news stories and features by staff reporters. The show first aired on April 24, 1984 and was hosted by popular Chicago broadcast journalist John Callaway (journalist), John Callaway for 15 years, who continued contributing to the show until he died in 2009. Notable staff * Paris Schutz - host * Brandis Friedman - host * Phil Ponce – host * Carol Marin – contributor References External links * Local television news programming in the United States 1984 American television series debuts 1980s American television news shows 1990s American television news shows 2000s American television news shows 2010s American television news shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (), most commonly known as Puerto Rico#Etymology, Boricuas, but also occasionally referred to as '':es:Anexo:Gentilicios de Puerto Rico#Lista general, Borinqueños'', '':es:Anexo:Gentilicios de Puerto Rico#Lista general, Borincanos'', or '':es:Anexo:Gentilicios de Puerto Rico#Lista general, Puertorros'', are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean Geography of Puerto Rico, archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through Genetics, ancestry, Culture of Puerto Rico, culture, or History of Puerto Rico, history. Puerto Ricans are predominately a Multiracial people, tri-racial, Hispanophone, Spanish-speaking, Christianity, Christian society, descending in varying degrees from Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous Taíno, Taíno natives, Southern Europe, Southwestern European Spanish colonization of the Americas, colonists, and West Africa, West and Central African Atlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
